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Contemporary Appalachia, Transportation Challenges, and Mental Health

Transportation in Appalachia presents problems both in terms of the public and private variety. In summary, public transportation ...

Global Trade and Outsourcing Logistics

2004). In most cases the cause is cited as rising costs and the pressures of markets and shareholders to reduce costs. The need t...

Qualitative Research, Quantitative Research, and Logistics

In twenty two pages this paper examines qualitative and quantitative research as they involve logistics in a consideration of pros...

France as the Ideal Vacation Spot

architecture includes the ultra modern, such as the modern art center commissioned by French president Georges Pompidou,, as the s...

Issues of Service Quality and the Marketing of Transportation Services

the transportation into a product that is wanted rather than bought on price (Hooley et al, 2003). This will mean having the right...

Supply Chain Components' Examination

The first stage to get the goods into the organisation takes procurement or purchasing as a section of the inbound logistics that ...

Wal-Mart's Changing Supply Chain

Johnson, ... Kraft Foods, Nestle Purina PetCare, ... and Unilever" (Hickey, 2004; p. 16). Where it is necessary, Wal-Mart a...

Reducing Dependence on Foreign Oil in the Transportation Industry

of Georgia, a hazardous mission of which most Americans are totally ignorant; American sailors patrol the Persian Gulf, the South ...

Wit & Palliative Care

also a former student of Vivians is now in the rather awkward position of also being one of her doctors, as he is an intern and re...

Reflective Practice And Research In Social Work

trained to discern as a species, inasmuch as the certain quality of perception required within the sensual world is decidedly uniq...

eBusiness Military Applications

would expect from the private sector. As all of DSCRs direct material suppliers operate in the private sector, DSCR also must mai...

Managed Care Contracts

Wagner 35). It is also suggested that the practitioner should, of course, thoroughly read the contract, but also that practition...

1895 Farmer's View of Manifest Destiny

well as the rising tension of the competitive race between the teams from the East and the West" (Rochman, 1998, p. 908). By the ...

Overview of Information Economics and the Transportation Industry

changes in the way in which the postindustrial age has addressed basic economic conditions, including the introduction of things l...

Urban Studies and Transportation Planning

achieved. Though transportation projects may be viable, may be logical in terms of meeting goals, and may be cost feasible, there...

Indonesia Rice Shipments by the United States

Denmark-based Maersk Sealand is one of the largest surface shippers in the world. It maintains more than 250 container vessels an...

Arizona's Transportation Projects and Public Funding

both the voters and the legislature that they have devised an appropriate scheme and are not simply going to spend money with no o...

Correlation Between Transportation Industry and Management

dominance in the global air cargo arena, the smaller and medium-sized companies are being pushed to the fringes of the markets (Ha...

Occupational Drug Testing of Employees

have enacted certain laws on their own which sometimes provide for testing in a much wider arena. Consider Idaho as an example. ...

Strategic Development of Fast Ship Company

but at half the price. The overall goals, for customers using Fast Ship would include a more cost-effective and efficient ...

Merger Between K Mart and Sears

merger has yet to actually take place (though approval seems to have been obtained), many experts, needless to say, have many ques...

Steinway's Supply Chain

chain, they are firm infrastructure, human resource management, technological development and procurement (Porter, 1985). At all l...

Punishment and Prisons in England During the Victorian Age in Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

accountable. In one of his most memorable works, Great Expectations (1860-1861), Dickens tackled the social hypocrisy that was ru...

BMW's Mini Cooper Plant in the United Kingdom and the Value Chain of Michael Porter

components already assembled for Toyota (Voight, 2003). May of the inputs are from internal sources form the BMW group, an...

Alternatives to Public Transit in Orlando, Florida

In eight pages this paper examines tourism in central Florida and the need for efficient and environmentally friendly public trans...

TSA Contact Center's Practical Implementation

In ten pages this paper discusses the Transportation Security Administration in a consideration of how its contact center can be l...

Urban Planning & Participation by the Public

associated with collaboration. This paper will provide a brief overview of the process, in addition to identifying lessons and val...

Different Countries and Ecommerce Building

for consumers (Anonymous, 1999). In one example, when Lands End (a mail order clothing supplier in the U.S.), talked about winter ...

Questions on Inventory and Supply Chain Management

(CSR). Formerly little more than the means of getting goods from one place to another, logistics management has the ability to pl...

Development of the Third World and Logistics

order to offer value-added services (UNESCAP, 2002). Finally, according to Dadzie (1998), many Third World countries (such...